At a $35,800 per head fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel, the president delivered what could become one of his most repeated refrains this year:

“Now I think what we’re really struggling for is the kind of America that most of the people here believe in, and I believe that most Americans believe in. But we’re going to have to fight for it because the other party has a fundamentally different vision about where to take this country.

Their basic argument is that if we strip out regulations, if we disregard environmental concerns, if we take away protections for workers, if we lower taxes even further for the kind of folks who are in this room, that somehow growth and the American dream will be restored. I fundamentally disagree with that vision.”

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Vice President Joe Biden, speaking to supporters at a campaign event Tuesday in Fort Worth, Texas, according to a pool report:

"The best way to sum up I think where we are today -- when I was asked the other day, someone gave me this line. The best way to sum up the job that President Obama has done -- and by the way, he committed we'd be out of Iraq. We are out of Iraq, completely out of Iraq. But the best way to sum up the job the President has done if you need a real shorthand -- Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive."